Category: archives

  • Annual service encourages unity

    Interfaith Thanksgiving celebration draws all religions By: Nick D’Amore    People of various faiths gathered at St. Cecilia’s R.C. Church Sunday, praying, singing and giving thanks together.    This year’s Interfaith Community Thanksgiving Service brought together people of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths. Those who gathered for the service all agreed that different groups coming together…

  • Whitman, Weinstein: thanks for gift of Route 29 truck ban

    EDITORIAL By: Ruth Luse    Happy Thanksgiving!    And thanks, Gov. Christie Whitman and DOT Commissioner James Weinstein for your pre-Thanksgiving gift of the long-awaited and rather unexpected ban of trucks and truck/trailer combinations equaling or exceeding 26,000 pounds from our "Scenic Byway," Route 29.    Many area people, including the staff of this newspaper, have supported the…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 11/23

    From the Nov. 23 edition of the Register-News By: 100 years ago    A boat load of old cannons from forts Henry and Carroll, near Baltimore, passed into the canal here Monday, en route to Brooklyn to be disposed of as old junk. The big guns did service during the civil war.    Franklin Dye, State Secretary…

  • EDITORIAL: Shop your way to gift of good deeds

       This week marks the official start of the holiday gift-giving season.    Many of you will undoubtedly mark the day by putting a fresh stack of checks in the checkbook, making sure those credit cards with the smallest balance are within reach, and heading off to a weekend of shopping.    Those getting an early start on…

  • Louise T. LaGrace

       Louise T. LaGrace, 84, died Nov. 16 at The Medical Center at Princeton.    A native of Jamesburg, she moved to Kendall Park 13 years ago. Many years ago, she had been employed as a secretary at Camp Kilmer in Edison. She was a member of the Kendall Park Chapter of Deborah Hospital Foundation.    Her two…

  • Locals attend Healthy Communities Healthy Youth session

    Search Institute conference    About 2,400 participants – almost one-third of them young people – from across the United States, Canada, and Mexico met at the Minneapolis Hilton and Convention Center for Search Institute’s fourth annual Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Conference, Nov. 2 to 4.    Healthy Communities Healthy Youth (HCHY) is a national initiative, rooted in…

  • School attorney resigns; board cites possible conflict

           CHESTERFIELD – Attorney Stephen Mushinski resigned as the school district solicitor last week at the request of the Board of Education. By:Vanessa S. Holt        CHESTERFIELD – Attorney Stephen Mushinski resigned as the school district solicitor last week at the request of the Board of Education.    He was asked to resign because of the…

  • Students weigh in on 2000’s tight tally

    Opinions differ on Electoral College, recount, media coverage By: Amanda Bok    This year’s "too close to call" presidential election has opened the electoral vote system up to scrutiny and discussion – even to students from a high school politics class.    The ongoing political and legal battles have raised questions about the validity of the Electoral…

  • Vigilant Association fetes 128th Dec. 2

       The following was compiled in the very good year of 1999, from the records, news clippings and some old stories – Nicholas Tuz, president.    Back in 1872, the Pleasant Valley Vigilant Association was formed "for the protection of its members property and for the detection and pursuit, apprehension, arrest and prosecution of thieves, tramps, marauders…